I am not apart from my faith
but I am apart from people
from my mountain cave
I compose poems and songs
I meditate and I realize emptiness
and still the people come in throngs
to accuse me of such silliness
feelings that have long since
come and gone
for aeons, our own harm befalls us
but still we blame,
in mistaken consciousness
still the same
in all our actions ignorant
I am not apart from my faith
but I am apart from others
in their silence and their pain
I am apart from you
and here I fear I will remain
The Halfwit Writer 